About the Author
Jonathan Rabb is the author of The Overseer and The Book of Q. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.
ALSO BY JONATHAN RABB
The Overseer
The Book of Q
Frontispiece: Weiblicher Akt mit grünem Tuch, von hinten gesehen (Female Nude with Green Shawl Seen from Behind), by Käthe Kollwitz (1903), from Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Used with permission of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
Copyright 2005 by Jonathan Rabb
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rabb, Jonathan.
Rosa / Jonathan Rabb.
1. Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871–1919—Fiction. 2. Attempted assassination—Fiction.
3. Women revolutionaries—Fiction. 4. Women socialists—Fiction. 5. Women
communists—Fiction. 6. Berlin (Germany)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.A215R675 2005
813'.54—dc22
2004014169
MAP ILLUSTRATION BY JACKIE AHER
eISBN: 978-0-307-23729-3
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